piecat
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- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 days ago:
With an ohm meter?
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 days ago:
You can’t tell me that there isn’t a good reason that 0.001% resistors exist. Otherwise why sell them?
- Comment on Two Open Source Projects Combine to 3D Print a Working Replica Key Using a Flipper Zero 5 days ago:
Lead and cadmium? Jeez
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
People also don’t realize how incredibly stupid humans can be. I don’t mean that in a judgemental or moral kind of way, I mean that the educational system has failed a lot of people.
There’s some % of people that could use AI for every decision in their lives and the outcome would be the same or better.
That’s even more terrifying IMO.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 1 week ago:
That is why those other VR sets are so cheap.
With valve, you’re paying for the hardware. With Meta, you’re the product
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 1 week ago:
This is where “universal basic income” comes into play
- Comment on Bernard 1 week ago:
Kinda looks like larry david
- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 1 week ago:
It’s definitely an arms race. One other outcome is that it gets too expensive to be cost effective and slows down that way.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint:
You can say anything in an authoritarian state, the consequences are that you’ll get disappeared in the night.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of hidden cost associated with supporting legacy features/standards/technology
Do they have different frequencies? Require different antennas?
Are there cost implications for radios / amplifiers? Do ASICs support only newer modes? How much obsoleted / legacy HW is required?
And that’s just from a manufacturer standpoint.
Are more licenses required? Or other regulatory impacts?
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
What a blast from the past
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 4 weeks ago:
when in reality it results in murderous regimes that oppress their people, their neighbors and everyone else there is to oppress.
Huh TIL that the USA is communist.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 4 weeks ago:
Communists aren’t destroying the US government as of now. Unless you consider the Russian assets on the right as communists?
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 4 weeks ago:
Only if you have the proper high btu burner
- Comment on Every package you receive has the chance of being a bomb 5 weeks ago:
Plenty of random innocent people have died from package bombs. All it takes is for someone to hate your boss / your neighbor / someone unrelated with the same name. Or just, someone unhinged
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 5 weeks ago:
So do we need to take time dilation into account?
1 minute forward in all reference frames? Is there an 81pSec difference in the time jump?
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
The less profitable we are, the less they’ll bother us.
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 1 month ago:
And that’s exactly why they want to stop it
- Comment on German Power Slips Below Zero as Negative-Price Phenomenon Grows 2 months ago:
But, but, AI!
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 2 months ago:
Worst-case ontario
Passed with flying carpets
It’s not rocket appliances
It’s just water outta the fridge
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
0.08mg per half cup serving, but may vary depending on water used.
10mg is the accepted daily upper limit. So 62.5 cups of oatmeal to reach that max safe limit.
Acute poisoning symptoms may appear as low as 10-15 mg/kg, lethal dose might be 32-64 mg/kg.
So 200 to 400 cups of oatmeal per kg you weigh for a lethal dose.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 4 months ago:
Patents shouldn’t exist! Mostly.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 4 months ago:
I think that’s called conversion. Or unjust enrichment.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 4 months ago:
“Thermal Noise” is a phenomenon where everything makes EM noise, just from thermal energy.
If you were to put such a TV in a faraday cage, with an RF termination, you would see something similar. Because noise is inherently part of the circuitry and amplifiers.
- Comment on ChatGPT-4o Guardrail Jailbreak: Hex Encoding for Writing CVE Exploits. 5 months ago:
Must be a hallucination
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 5 months ago:
Obscufating the location of the starlink unit isn’t possible. It inherently requires positioning to function at all.
Starlink uses phased array antennas for beamforming, both on the earth base station and on the satelite station. That means the antenna is very directional by using some complex math and multiple tranceivers feeding an antenna array.
That means the satelite must know where you are within like 10s of km. Otherwise it can’t tell where to beam your data.
It’s kinda exactly why cell towers can locate you. And why you can’t avoid that.
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 5 months ago:
- Comment on Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone 5 months ago:
Look at this article from March 2024: …house.gov/…/cnbc-house-democrats-probe-spacex-ov…
In a statement on Thursday, the congressmen wrote, “Russia’s use of Starlink satellite terminals would be in contravention of U.S. export controls that prohibit Russia from acquiring and utilizing U.S.-produced technology.”
So the equipment has to fall into the wrong hands, through a somehow compromised supply chain. Maybe that could happen without starlink knowing, but they really should have figured that out in march. They should have very easily identified the units that were potentially compromised by auditing shipping logs.
Not only did the supply chain have to be compromised, but also the subscription and payments system… How did they not catch it on the subscription payment side? Now in addition to a compromised supply chain, a financial institution was compromised? At the least, they didn’t do their due dilligance in customer verification.
How could russia have set up the equipment without some level of development and testing? Geolocation should have given that development away.
Now, could spaceX do something more about this ? Most likely. But that is resources you need to put on this, which is not profitable.
Yeah good point, that’s called “negligence”. Not doing due dilligance or taking the necessary steps to avoid breaking the law, because it isn’t profitable, isn’t a valid legal defense.
It really would have been as simple as geofencing against devices that weren’t preauthorized or whitelisted.
